On Saturday evening, at around 6 p.m., three Syrians (19, 20, 21) spat on photos and candles for hostages of Hamas and killed Israeli soldiers placed on the ground in the area of the Jewish Museum at Sankt-Jakobs- Square, as the police reported on Sunday. They also made ‘verbally aggressive’ comments.
Two security guards noticed the outrageous incident and tried to detain the three aggressive men, who live in Austria.
The 19-year-old then kicked one of the two security guards with his leg and pulled out a knife. The security staff therefore threatened to use their firearms. Police officers on the scene, who had become aware of the situation, also threatened to use their firearms.
Finally, the 19-year-old dropped the knife.
The three Syrians were provisionally arrested. They are now being investigated for threatening behaviour, assault, insult and defamation of the memory of deceased persons
The police were deployed in large numbers. According to reports, nobody was injured.
Every Republican president is Hitler, of course, but Donald Trump is somehow even Hitlerer than all of them. It was a theme in his first term, but during this election, even the corrupt eggplant masquerading as the incumbent got into the act. Trump was Hitler – no, he was Super Hitler. He was more Hitler than Hitler. And it’s a constant theme among the lesser lights of the Democrat Party. “This is what fascism looks like,” intone very serious politicians who seem to have no idea what fascism looks like. And the Trump/Hitler thing is all over social media. Every day, as Trump exercises the legitimate powers granted to him by the American people via winning the election, another leftist mediocrity with a five-digit follower account figuratively throws up his, her, or their soft, girlish hands and says, “OK. I’m calling it – he’s Hitler.”
A different news organization than the Associated Press gets to ask Trump questions. Hitler!
Layout do-nothing government flunkies get asked to give five bullet points about what they’ve done in the last week to demonstrate their value to the American people. Hitler!
He lets feminine euroweenies know that the United States is no longer going to pick up the tab for their national defense so they can focus on giving free stuff to Third World invaders even as they arrest their own people for the crime of speaking freely. Hitler!
Elon lifted his right arm. Oh yeah, Hitler!
Whatever. It’s all stupid, and it doesn’t work anymore if it ever worked at all. You can’t call Trump “Hitler” for the nearly ten years since he came down the escalator in the farthest thing ever from a Leni Riefenstahl rally and, after he fails to grow a tiny mustache, start wearing Hugo Boss uniforms and invade Poland, expect people to take it seriously. And people don’t care. It’s now just background noise. Trump is Hitler. What else is new? What else you got?
“He’s Hitler” is a shorthand for leftist disapproval, much like the term “racist.” If you’re not a leftist – and sometimes if you are – you’re a racist. It’s not what you’ve done. It’s who you are. And the term is tossed around so promiscuously no one respects it. It doesn’t matter if you do thing X that they say is racist because you’re still going to be racist anyway. You can’t win. And when you can’t win, it’s not fair. And when it’s not fair, no one takes it seriously. It becomes a joke. No one cares. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, except they don’t teach that story in schools anymore because it privileges the male gender experience. And no, the story wouldn’t work if the boy who cried wolf were the she-male who cried wolf because the trans folks are often the ones crying “wolf,” and they hate irony almost as much as using the right restroom.
There’s no point in explaining that America First people aren’t racist, just like there’s no point in demonstrating that Donald Trump is not only not literally Hitler, but not Hitler in any sense of the word, nor Hitler adjacent in any way, shape, or form. Trump is a lot of things, but a disciplined, hard-core ideologue who obsesses over the lives of others to the point of starting programs against them is not one of them. It’s all of a kind with the mental defectives who don those red handmaiden costumes to warn of the Trumpian sexual repression that awaits them at some date that is ever receding into the future. Yeah, there’s nothing Donald Trump hates more than a beautiful, uncovered woman. That’s why he spent the first 40 years in the public eye, wandering around Manhattan with his burka-clad concubines.
That it is all so embarrassingly stupid may actually be the point of the exercise. Remember that the leftists have this thing demonstrating their fealty to the movement by loudly and publicly proclaiming that which is obviously, utterly untrue. By abdicating any shred of dignity in this way, they sacrifice their own integrity on the altar of Marxist nonsense. “Look at me! Look what I’m willing to do for the cause! Trump is Hitler! Men can have vaginas! Joe Biden is honest and not at all demented! I will say what must be said to prevail! This is the depth of my commitment!”
It’s easy to see this as insane, but it should be seen as insidious. Certainly, there are stupid people who believe this nonsense. Rep. Jasmine Crockett comes to mind, as she always does when the word “stupid” gets tossed around. But others aren’t so dumb. They’re intelligent in the sense that they’re able to process information and do not need to be reminded to breathe. They understand that no, Donald Trump is not Hitler or even Hitlerish. They just don’t care. They assume that those listening to them are either stupid enough to believe them, which is a satisfactory outcome, or, better, that the listeners will appreciate the depths of their commitment as demonstrated by lying, loudly and publicly, for the good of the party.
Normal people just think it’s stupid, and that’s kind of a problem. All the people susceptible to this nonsense have long ago been self-selected and enlisted in the struggle. The challenge now is to appeal to the masses, and the masses don’t see stating obvious mistruths as either persuasive or honorable. Why would they listen to someone who’s telling them that Trump is a dictator when they just voted for Trump? The underlying premise is that Trump’s rule is illegitimate, but a plurality and near majority of Americans voted for Trump, meaning when you call Trump “Hitler,” you’re basically telling nearly half of Americans that they have no legitimate claim to participate in their own governance via elections. A lot of Americans, particularly those of us who escaped from communist countries like my wife or served their country in war like me, take that personally. It stops being funny when the real message becomes clear – that our attempts to act as American citizens are morally illegitimate, not because of anything we’ve done or Trump did, but because the Hitler hollerers are mad that they’re not in office anymore.
So, what do they do? They can hardly go harder. What’s harder than the malignant Austrian housepainter? What are they going to say, that he’s Double Secret Hitler? When you cross the Hitler line, there’s not much of anywhere else to go. They could focus on his personal proclivities, and they have, and Americans have made their peace with those allegations that they believe and ignored the ones they don’t. But when calling somebody a sex pervert, racist, reincarnation of Hitler only earns a shrug, you can’t really double down. You’ve already tripled down.
Now, they could go in the other direction. They could attack Trump and his policies substantively. But this has several problems, not the least of which is that his policies are substantively awesome. One is that they don’t know how to do this. Leftists haven’t had to argue for decades. It’s the “The Daily Show” effect. They are smart, you see, so they don’t contend with the ideas of the bad people; they mock the bad people. The bad people are unworthy of having their ideas refuted. They should simply accept that they suck and submit. But what happens when the normal people stop caring about your insults and jibes? Then you’ve got nothing.
Plus, there’s another problem – if you meaningfully contend with the views of the bad people, your own side is going to accuse you of normalizing them. This is weird because these people are normal. But the left’s strategy in this century has been to place every idea besides those it embraces outside of the allowed range of views. The natural response of the American populist movement has been to accept that challenge – we’re not going to argue with them either. We’re just going to take power, use it to the fullest, and let them cry about it, because they’re going to cry one way or the other.
That’s the Hitler part, the part where we win an election and dare to impose our policies. That’s what Trump’s done in the last couple of months. He’s made no apologies for using the powers the Constitution invests in the presidency. This freaks out the left because they’ve been able to browbeat past Republicans, including Trump during his first term when he was surrounded by squishes for much of it, into not using the full scope of their authority. Perhaps having the left try to put him in jail for the rest of his life, if not murder him, gave Trump a different perspective this time. Now, he’s using his constitutional powers as intended, which doesn’t make him Hitler. It makes him worse than that to the left. It makes him effective.
After the Romanian authorities canceled the first round of elections won by anti-Globalist Calin Georgescu, and detained him for questioning in a bogus prosecution, it now arises that Georgescu has been BARRED from running in the May poll, in which he is the leading candidate, favorite with 40% of vote intentions.
Bucharest has exploded in chaos after the decision was announced.
“Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has officially rejected Calin Georgescu’s candidacy, voting 10-4 against him—citing claims that his speech and behavior are “incompatible” with the office of president.
This politically charged decision follows appeals demanding his disqualification, despite Georgescu polling above 40% and previously clearing all registration requirements. Georgescu’s team now has 24 hours to appeal to the Constitutional Court (CCR), which must issue a final, unappealable ruling within 48 hours.
With public outrage growing and protests escalating, Romania’s election is turning into a battle over political suppression.”
🚨🇷🇴MASSIVE CLASHES IN BUCHAREST AS PROTESTERS TRY TO TEAR DOWN FENCES OVER GEORGESCU BAN
Fury is erupting in Romania as an enraged crowd attempts to break through the fences outside the Bureau of Electoral Control (BEC) after authorities rejected Calin Georgescu’s candidacy… https://t.co/Jor7RnW5GCpic.twitter.com/QFBx24FQLh
Assault on board a bus on the Cremona-Spinadesco line. Two girls of foreign origin allegedly slapped an Italian girl of the same age because she was eating a sandwich on the bus and insulted her: ‘Whore, you can’t eat, it’s Ramadan’. When the bus driver intervened to defend the girl, the two allegedly pushed him and scratched his face, breaking his glasses and forcing him to be taken to the hospital.
The incident, reported by the daily La Provincia di Cremona, is said to have taken place on Tuesday March 4 and was described by the 52-year-old driver himself, who was able to leave hospital with five days of treatment. The man said that it was some women who raised the alarm: ‘Driver, they’re fighting, pull over!’. He then stopped, opened all the doors and ordered them to leave the bus. ‘At that moment, I saw that they were beating the Italian girl. I immediately called the carabinieri, who arrived within a few minutes’.
The girls were let off the bus, but when one of them jumped off the bus,’ said the driver, ’she pushed me in the stomach. The other one also pushed me, broke my glasses and scratched my face. The driver said he would file a complaint with the carabinieri and attach the medical report.
The news triggered a strong reaction. The attack was sharply criticised by the Muslim community. Muslims living in Italy must respect the laws of the country and behave like responsible citizens. If we want to be respected, we must first and foremost respect others and the environment in which we live,’ explained Aftab Ahmed, member of the Consulta degli immigrati and chairman of the Immigrati cittadini Onlus association in Cremona.
In contrast, Lega MP Silvia Sardone described the incident as ‘emblematic of what the most radical Islam is: violence and oppression against non-Muslims. Yet there is still someone on the left who bends over backwards in the face of increasing Islamisation, closing schools for Ramadan, adapting canteen menus to please the various Muslim communities and even allowing the niqab in class’.
England vs Italy halted after drone hanging Palestine flag flies over Twickenham X
A drone hanging a Palestine flag flew over Twickenham as England took on Italy in the Six Nations, temporarily halting the match.
While the Six Nations game went ahead just moments later, it further highlighted the growing unrest including Palestinian protestors in recent times.
Only this weekend, a protestor managed to scale Big Ben as unrest went ahead on the streets below.
England went on to beat Italy 47-24 to keep their Six Nations dream alive, though if only a slim hope with France poised to claim victory.
The drone involved flew over temporarily before hovering off but not before it was noticed by people, who flocked to social media.
The Palestine flag draped underneath from two strings was spotted by officials, who halted the match before it flew off and play resumed.
Rugby fans fumed on social media with one taking to social media to write: “Where’s the RAF when you need them.”
Another posted: “Have a day off.”
While a third said: “Shoot it down.”
Meanwhile, England surged to second place in the Six Nations table after a commanding seven-try victory over Italy at Allianz Stadium.
The impressive win puts Steve Borthwick’s men in prime position to capitalise on any final-day slip-up by tournament leaders France.
In what ultimately became a comfortable victory, England showed their attacking prowess against a spirited Italian side.
The result maintains England’s momentum as the championship reaches its crucial final stages.
Wing Ollie Sleightholme was the star performer, crossing the line twice to bolster England’s attacking display.
Despite the final scoreline, Italy made the hosts work hard in the opening period as the visitors produced two superb tries of their own to stay within touching distance.
Replacement Marcus Smith made an immediate impact after coming on at a tense moment, crossing the line to extend England’s advantage as the hosts went on to score a total of seven tries.
Borthwick’s side end their Six Nations campaign with a trip to Cardiff next week to take on Wales, who have lost 16 matches in a row.
“Nuremberg cancels children’s carnival,” the BILD reports.
Threats have forced the German city to cancel the Rose Monday children’s carnival parade. The reason: the terrorists named potential targets, including carnival parades. No carnival in Munich.
“Ramadan instead of carnival: the failure of the multicultural project,” writes Anna Diouf with the necessary irony.
In cities across Europe, concrete bollards are intended to prevent cars with famous mentally disturbed people at the wheel from hurtling into the celebrating crowd. In places where this is not possible or where fear of attacks prevails, parades and events are canceled, as in Nuremberg.
For several years, Jews in Germany have been advised not to be recognizable on the street with yarmulkes, fringes, and words in Hebrew.
While carnival revelers and fools have to limit themselves, Ramadan can take place undisturbed. And so in a Germany stunned by the attacks, Islam turns on its lights. There must be a moment when we understand the logic of multicultural madness. And this should be one of them.
The traditional carnival parade in Kempten has been cancelled because there are not enough concrete barriers and the high costs of the alternative measures are not “sustainable”.
Beatrice Achterberg, editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, attacks the appeasement of Islam: “Now that Germany has been shaken by several terrorist attacks, often of Islamist origin. Perhaps it is more a sign of submission than of tolerance”.
All this is accepted as the new “normal”. And since the famous “local customs” have to adapt, Ramadan can be celebrated undisturbed, with the lights of Ramadan in Frankfurt, Cologne and Berlin.
That’s how the West is. Culture is being sold off. And suddenly there is nothing more important than culture, but of course not your own, but foreign culture.
And in the context of the global rise of political Islam, the dispossession of European culture is an act of grabbing tolerated with great naivety.
The model is London, which under the leadership of its Muslim mayor embarked on this type of Islamization last year and inaugurated the Ramadan lighting near the famous Piccadilly Circus.
More Ramadan lights in London, while it is “winter holiday” in France instead of Christmas.
One day they will introduce Ramadan as a national religious holiday in Europe.
Frankfurt has lit up the historic center for the Islamic holy month. For 30 days, the words “Happy Ramadan” will shine on the Freßgass. “We are showing that Muslim life is a natural part of our city, Frankfurt stands for diversity and openness,” said Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Greens). In light of the election results, with over 20 percent for the AfD, it is particularly important this year to “prove that everyone belongs in Frankfurt”.
This “Happy Ramadan” shows the full extent of the uncultured “monotony” that has taken hold in the mind of the progressive intellectual idiot. In a society of idiots, absurdity becomes a success.
Eskandari-Grünberg is wrong: if we were multicultural, Carnival could be celebrated peacefully, respecting the normal security measures. Then we would not have to worry about Islamic terrorism. But now we live in the intoxication of green diversity.
Cologne is also celebrating Ramadan for the first time. The same city that erases the iconic cathedral from its new logo that comes after the mayor’s decision to allow the Islamic call to prayer in the city from 50 mosques.
A mother, in this best Germany ever, does not want her 9-year-old daughter to go on a school trip to the large mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. The management of the elementary school in Longerich threatens the mother with consequences. “I was immediately threatened that my daughter would not be allowed to participate in any more trips,” the 36-year-old mother tells Express.de about the school’s reaction.
In a supposedly Christian country, if you do not want to send your child on a trip to the mosque, you are now punished. And the Catholic Church of St. Theodore in Cologne has contributed to the Islamization of the city by financing Erdogan’s mosque, in the name of an imaginary interreligious dialogue.
Even Munich is illuminated for Ramadan, a few weeks after the Islamist attack. In Munich, the lighting serves to promote the “normalization of Islamic holidays”, according to the city.
They say it openly.
For the first time in Berlin, in the Mitte district, Ramadan lights have been installed. Mayor Stefanie Remlinger (Greens) announced it. The Tiergarten town hall is also festively lit. A break in the fast is planned in Leopoldplatz.
Christian Thielemann, the great conductor who should have been appointed to lead the Berlin Philharmonic, the first German sixty years after Wilhelm Furtwängler, was right, but the accusation of being “Islamophobic” cost him his job. Asked whether Islam belonged to Germany, Thielemann said: “Perhaps one day Christianity will belong to Turkey again and Judaism to the Arab world. But until then we have to be able to say no, without being seen as fascists.”
That’s how we talk and think. But it takes courage. Better to join the multicultural fools’ party.
On January 30, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian refugee, was shot dead in his “safe house” in Södertälje, a suburb of Stockholm, while he was recording a live broadcast on social media in which he defended the right to criticize the Koran in the name of freedom of expression.
Swedish philosopher and artist Alexander Bard told Le Point: “Salwan Momika’s murder is an absolute disgrace. He was the country’s most obvious target: a Christian who fled Iraq after surviving the Islamic State, and yet no one is protecting him va. His act of burning the Koran, which is perfectly legal in Sweden, was intended to draw attention to a fundamental problem. Today I am ashamed, deeply ashamed to be Swedish. This murder reveals the extreme weakness of our culture. The worst thing is that Salwan Momika is not an isolated case. It is precisely people from the Arab world who now feel most threatened in the West. Take Luai Ahmed, a Yemeni, openly gay and totally opposed to Islam. He had to flee his country, but he is not safe in Sweden either. That is why our current crisis is so serious.”
Bard speaks of a spiritual crisis. “Sweden is fascinating because it is very, very consistent in its ideology. Christianity is literally dead here. We didn’t even need pedophiles to kill Christianity. It is dead. Poof, gone. The churches, if they still exist, are completely empty. This means that the state ideology has become the only ideology in Sweden.”
“Sweden is facing a cultural schizophrenia with the arrival of a population that today numbers one to two million people, or 20 percent of the total. Proportionately, Sweden is probably the country in the world with the highest ratio of immigration to population. However, of these 10 million inhabitants, 2 million do not adhere to the official ideology at all, but take advantage of it. France, Sweden, any European country can explode at any moment, precisely because we know nothing about these subcultures. Europe would do well to learn from the current situation in Sweden.
“What is happening there is a warning to the rest of the continent. This is the greatest danger that Europe faces today. In Sweden, it was not only Salwan Momika who had to flee, but also many others. In recent years, Jews have also left the country in large numbers, precisely because they no longer feel safe. For the first time in a long time, one can ask whether the principles of the Enlightenment are not really in danger. The last time they were threatened was in the 1940s, with the rise of fascism. Today the threat takes another form. That of Islamism.”
Only 3 percent of Swedes believe that being Christian is an important part of their national identity, while 91 percent of Iraqis, one of the largest groups of migrants in Sweden, support Islamic law. What is striking about a recent Gallup poll is the way it presents the contrast between first-world and third-world nations over theocracy. And that will have some weight, given that in a few years a third of Sweden will be Islamic.
But make yourself comfortable: Ikea, the Swedish giant, has just launched its Ramadan line.
Our freedom is being reduced to choosing which sofa to buy.
On today’s #NCFWhittle, we are joined by Prof. David Betz, Professor of War in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London where he heads the MA War Studies programme. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Prof. Betz’s most recent book, The Guarded Age: Fortification in the 21st Century, is published by Polity
When my kids were growing up, I knew a young man who was charming, funny, sociable, and quite obviously going to be gay. Exactly no one was surprised when, at 13, he came out of the closet. All would have been well if COVID hadn’t hit when he was in college. Isolated and depressed, he signed up for therapy, ending with a therapist who informed him that he was actually a woman. (I’m sure social media algorithms, such as Chinese-run TikTok’s, helped steer him in that direction.)
This young man has now had hormones and two surgeries. He’s stacked up top and empty down below. The big question is whether he will find happiness.
Sadly for my young friend, the odds are against him, at least according to a massive study done in Houston and published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, an outlet of Oxford Academic, which is, in turn, part of Oxford University Press. In other words, a big study published on a reputable forum. According to that study, once the surgery is over, and once the euphoria associated with realizing a dream has passed, the post-surgical patients are deeply depressed.
Image by Grok.
The study examined information from 107,583 patients, using the TriNetX database. (Electronic medical records are very helpful for looking at large population segments.) The study examined people over age 18 with gender dysphoria, and broke them into six useful categories for data analysis.
WPATH, the largest organization pushing “transgender” ideology on doctors and hospitals, along with the usual collection of activists, would undoubtedly predict that the study showed increased levels of happiness among post-surgical people. They surely would argue that so-called “transgender” people who had surgery would magically be less depressed, less inclined to substance abuse, and less likely to commit suicide.
In fact, the opposite was true, and not just a little true, but very true. Those who had surgery were markedly less happy than their so-called “transgender” peers who stopped short of slicing and dicing their bodies:
From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery. Males with surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression (25.4% vs. 11.5%, RR 2.203, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (12.8% vs. 2.6%, RR 4.882, P < 0.0001). Females exhibited similar trends, with elevated depression (22.9% vs. 14.6%, RR 1.563, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (10.5% vs. 7.1%, RR 1.478, P < 0.0001). Feminizing individuals demonstrated particularly high risk for depression (RR 1.783, P = 0.0298) and substance use disorders (RR 1.284, P < 0.0001).
Sadly, the study pulls back from stating the obvious conclusion, which is that so-called transgenderism is a mental condition, not a physical one. Mutilating one’s body, even if that mutilation is deeply desired and ostensibly conforms to a perceived “better body,” does not address the underlying problems of gender dysphoria.
Or as the old saying goes, “wherever you go, there you are.” You cannot outrun yourself with surgery. Surgeries are good for fixing distinct medical conditions (e.g., a broken hip or clogged heart), or even making little cosmetic tweaks (e.g., a nose job), but they will not fix a broken psyche.
But again, the study will not or cannot acknowledge that. Instead, it believes the post-surgical problems arise, in part, from “stigma and lack of gender affirmation.” That cannot be right, because the stigma and lack of gender affirmation logically exist before the mutilating surgery as well as after. Ignoring logic, the study recommends “ongoing, gender-sensitive mental health support for transgender individuals’ post-surgery.” The same logic says this won’t help either.
Again, wherever you go, there you are. Cutting off your breasts or castrating yourself will not change that, no matter how much you sign up for “mental health support” from ideologues who, like the therapist my young friend saw, are effectively hammers who believe everything is a transgender nail.
Transgender madness will pass, as all societal delusions must. However, it will leave so many broken lives in its wake.
Currently, my young friend is living a narcissist’s dream, taking endless photos of his feminized self to affirm that, yes, he really is a girl. Eventually, though, those photos won’t help. I fear that this once brilliant, funny, sociable young man will fall into an abyss as he looks down at his eunuch’s body and realizes there is no going back.
A group of trans activists are calling for a boycott of a clothing-optional spa in San Francisco after a trans-identified male was told he would not be allowed to go nude during a female-only event.
The Archimedes Banya, a Russian bathhouse on the shores of the San Francisco Bay, advertises itself as a space to hang out “with old friends, make new ones, or have a quiet time just to refresh and energize yourself.” As part of their offerings, the spa holds sex-segregated nights where only males or only females are allowed into the clothing-optional facility. The nights cater towards those of religious persuasions that restrict intimate mixing between the sexes.
However, transgender activists are now protesting against the spa after one activist, known as Breath Mormorer, was informed that he would have to remain clothed at all times if he wanted to attend the female-only night.
“It goes against everything that I came here for,” Mormorer said during an interview with local CBS News. “I came from Alabama specifically to escape that type of prejudice and hate. And I got here and I found out this city has just as much of it,” he added.
On his TikTok account, Mormorer, who pronounces his name Momor-ray, regularly uploads videos of him protesting for various trans causes in San Francisco. He is known for wrapping himself in clingfilm in order to produce life-size mannequins of trans-identified males, which he then distributes across San Francisco as performance art intended to raise awareness for “trans visibility.”
After the initial boycott started, Archimedes Banya issued a statement claiming that they stood by the “diversity of the Bay Area,” and wanted to respect both their “commitment to inclusivity” and the needs of religious and cultural communities who require gender-segregated spaces.
As such, they announced the introduction of two different events: an Inclusive Women’s Night, which they described as “open to all individuals who identify as women,” and a Cultural and Religious Women’s Night, which they state is “designed to provide a space that aligns with the needs of women from religious or cultural backgrounds who observe practices requiring a female-only environment based on sex assigned at birth.”
But despite the accommodation, trans activists continued their protest and took to form a picket line outside of the spa. One protestor, identified to CBS as ‘Jordan,’ claimed that the idea of biological sex, especially in religions, was not as simple as people claimed.
“In a lot of pre-Christian Slavic cultures there was a lot of, gender and sexuality was much more fluid than, and it was put down by the Christians, but even without all that, there are a lot of Catholic, Orthodox Jewish and Muslim people who are trans allies if not trans themselves,” he argued. “That response is really discriminatory when you think about it because if you had a night where you excluded, say, a certain race, that would not fly and we’re just saying, trans exclusive nights won’t fly.”
Another trans protester, Dakota Rose Austin, argued it was simply more evidence of hostility to transgenderism that has risen across the United States.
“As Latinos, as trans, as queer, as African American, the fear is turned now. If you weaponize DEI and affirmative action and all these other things that were a benefit of everyone in America and you weaponize them against us, now I’m in fear,” Austin said.
This is not the first time a spa has been targeted by trans activists for refusing to allow males to be nude around women.
As Reduxx reported last month, Archimedes Banya is not the first spa to face the ire of transgender activists. King Spa in Palisades Park in New Jersey, that models itself after the Korean jimjilbang spas that require full nudity in some areas, is currently being chased for compensation by Alexandra Goebert, a trans-identified man who was forced to leave from the women’s area after a manager became aware of his trans status in 2022.
In 2023, a court in Seattle ruled that a similarly Korean-based women’s only spa in Washington state did not have the “constitutional right” to ban biological males. Haven Wilvich, a trans-identified man, had complained to the Washington State Human Rights Commission, alleging that his application to use the facilities at the spa had been rejected after staff told him that “transgender women without surgery are not welcome because it could make other customers and staff uncomfortable.”
A popular folk festival in the Berlin borough of Friedrichshagen, the Bölschefest, has been cancelled because the organiser said he felt he could not guarantee visitors’ safety “against attacks by persons with vehicles”.
Planned for the weekend of May 10 and 11, the street festival featuring a flea market, food stalls, an entertainment programme and regional association booths, has suffered the same fate as several carnival parades in Germany following a string of car-attacks, a number involving suspected Islamists.
“We cannot adequately secure this road against attacks by people with vehicles,” Hans-Dieter Laubinger, managing director of Laubinger Event company, said in a statement on March 6.
“After consultation with the police, we would have to protect the road areas for vehicles on the Bölsche with concrete,” Laubinger said, although the entrances and exits for trams would have to have remained open.
In addition, all side streets leading to Bölschestraße, which would have played host to many festival-goers, were also not secured against vehicles breaking through, the organiser said.
“Our technical and economic possibilities are not sufficient to sufficiently block the open entrances to Bölschestraße,” Laubinger said.
Instead, the intention now was to hold a smaller festival in the Friedrichshagen market square on the second weekend in May, he told the Berliner Morgenpost on March 6 indicating it was easier to secure.
Streets such as Bölschestraße “are almost no longer suitable for such festivals in these times”, he said.
During the Covid pandemic the festival was cancelled in 2020 and in 2021. In 2023 construction works prevented that edition of the folk festival.
Despite the cancellation of the Bölschefest this year, a later event in the same street, the Bölschestraßenfest, was set to continue. The organiser of that event, the Capital Culture Association, said it would take all necessary precautions in consultation with the Berlin police.
In recent months, Germany has been hit with a number of attacks killing several people.
There were also several stabbings, with the most recent one taking place in Schönebeck in Saxony-Anhalt, on the morning of March 7.
Special forces of the State Criminal Police Office reportedly shot a 26-year-old Afghan after he had threatened a German of the same age and the police with a knife. The culprit later died in a hospital.
